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of Oedipus, the man who kills his father and marries his mother, is actually older than Sophocless version of the story. Its timel...
is a social climber; and she has no respect for her husband or his scholarship, finding it and him both incredibly boring. She is ...
he was the victim of an unspeakable crime: it was prophesied that Laius would die by his sons hand, and so when Oedipus was born, ...
to have an impact open Hamlet and his self critical guilt. The well known quote that shows the motivation for the play is "the pla...
"heavy father ... [who] is often led into the vices and follies which he has reproved in his son" (Bates, 1906, vol. 1). These com...
In a paper consisting of five pages the set construction and design and how their details serve to emphasize the play's theme are ...
This 5 page paper discusses three plays by American playwright Arthur Miller. The three are Death of a Salesman, After the Fall an...
This paper consists of five pages and considers how Cassandra's rendition of events represents a play within a play as her word im...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these plays by Euripides and Aristophanes in a consideration of the similarities a...
This paper examines Hansberry's award-winning play and focuses on the importance of various roles played by female characters. Th...
In four pages female characters Nora and Pernelle in these two plays are contrasted and compared in an examination of the role wom...
This paper consists of six pages in which comparisons are made between Oedipus and Ibsen's heroine Nora Helmer along with a compar...
In five pages the play's final scene and how its philosophical and theological issues reflect the society of ancient Greece. Ther...
In four pages this paper examines the play's good vs. evil conflict in a consideration of how divine power is dominated by demonic...
In nine pages American dramatic realism is discussed in an analysis of Eugene O'Neill's play Desire Under Elms and Tennessee Willi...
In six pages the play's original production is analyzed in terms of its primary thematic elements. Four sources are cited in the ...
The comic elements of this famous play by Christopher Marlowe are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is no for...
In five pages this paper analyzes this speech and how it becomes as much uncontrollable violence as sparked by the play's lovers. ...
defines her character. She is, in essence, a human mirror, used to reflect the desires of others (Dane gdane.html). Her inabilit...
joy in my life" (Mendes, 1999, p. PG). II. CONSIDERING SYSTEMS APPROACH What would it take to put Lester and Carolyns marriage b...
The powerful themes of temptation, guilt, heresy, and prophecy as they lend to the play's overall effectiveness are considered in ...
In five pages this research paper analyzes madness within the contexts of Paulina Salas Escobar in the play and screenplay Death a...
In five pages this paper discusses how the concepts of law and justice are featured in the play's famous courtroom scene. There a...
This research paper analyzes Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and compares its narratives to instances of adolescent suicide and fam...
In ten pages this paper examines postmodern philosopher Stanley Cavell's views on William Shakespeare's tragic plays Antony and Cl...
In an essay consisting of five pages Chekhov's and Stanislavsky's views of the play are compared with the argument being that acco...
The writer discusses the role genetics plays in determining behavior, and indicates that while social models and genetics together...
This paper analyzes the soliloquy Cleopatra delivers to Dolabella in this scene in three pages in terms of how it relates to the p...
In five pages this paper discusses the play's second scene in Act II and the first scene in Act III in a consideration of the func...
In five pages this paper discusses how the play's content is overshadowed by its acting and directing. There are no sources liste...